Introducing the Be^® Operating System (BeOS^®).

In 1990, Jean-Louis Gassée, former president of Apple's product division, formed Be, Inc. to address the problems involved with older computer operating systems head-on:

The company wanted to step beyond the evolutionary approach to personal computing architectures; to see what could be accomplished if you built a personal computer using new assumptions, based on cutting-edge software design concepts, and designed for the next decade's applications, rather than the last decade's.

The result is an operating system with a new level of price-performance and a dramatic reduction in the complexity of software:

• Tell me about the problems with older operating systems!

• How has computing changed in the past several years?

• How does BeOS address these fundamental changes to our future?

• Who is already using the BeOS?

• What kind of hardware does the BeOS require?

• Tell me about the software that is available on BeOS!

• Show me what tools I have for developing powerful applications on BeOS!

• What are people saying about this exciting new operating system?

• Show me what the industry is saying about BeOS!

• How do I participate in the BeOS revolution?

• How do I get a copy of BeOS?